Hey guys I was sitting around the other day thinkin bout why I started playing guitar and basically came up with the fact that you look so freakin cool doin it AND that I wanted to be able to play like my favourite guitarists................

and I'm talkin bout the FIRST albums that made you wanna play cos if this list was my top ten all time albums now it would probably be totally different.

Children Of Bodom - HatebreederSinergy - Suicide by my SideSinergy - Beware The HeavensSteve Vai - Passion and WarfareNecrophagist - EpitaphNorther - Dreams of an Endless WarYngwie Malsteen - Fire and IceDragonforce - Valley Of the DamnedAnata - Under a Stone With No InscriptionTheodore Ziras - Trained To Play

edit: misread question. answer is, none. nobody influenced me. last year in september I sold a night vision device for $2,000. I had reached the point in life where it was going to be either a Motorcycle, a Younger Woman, or an Amplifier. We all reach this stage eventually, no matter how hard we try to avoid it. As I could not get very much in the way of quality in either a Motorcycle or a Younger woman for $2,000, I opted for amplifier and guitar.

Hard to name actual albums.. I don´t know what got me in to guitar except the fact that I found one at home. But I can name some bands/albums that I did listen to a lot! So in somewhat of an historical order...

Rage against the machine - bulls on parade (my first metalsounding album ever, before that.. All eurodisco. Remember buying it after listening to it in the store with those headphones already plugged in with the weeks 4 top records or something.. Sounded brutal.. )

Megadeth - Rust in peaceI remember buying this at "nice price" sale having no idea what it really was. But I liked the guitar riffs. Sounded just awsome.

Metallica - any album availible at the timeI was already warmed up with some metal but these guys made me "all into metal" for quite some time.

Nirvana - unplugged mtv record.. This were the riff I started playing. Mainly because it´s a good record, it was my sisters and I could actually play them. Simply and nice!

Millencolin - Life on a plateListened to this so many times... Borrowed from the library over and over again.. Emotional lyrics sort of. Energizing sound.

Blind Guardian - Somewhere far beyond (and all other records later on)I remember having this record for a year or so. Never really got hooked. And then when putting it on in a very long time I just was blown away. Bought them all =) Think I apreciated it more when I had started playing guitar.

So much influence by other bands but I think this were the ones going over and over again when I was young..

When I was a young lad, it was when the alternative movement was really getting mainstream, SO...

Frog Stomp - SilverchairDookie - Green DaySmash - OffspringLoad - Metallica (I was young and it had jsut come out, I worked backwards through their catalog, I dont' touch it at all now )Superunknown - Soundgarden

Then I grew up, went to college, needed a hobby that didn't involve bars and loose women to entertain myself during the week. Then there it was, sitting on the shelf at target on my lunch break. The name was so ridiculous I immediately knew I had to buy it. The font reminded me of the one other band I knew that played Power Metal (at the time, was Freedom Call), DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage. I immediately took the CD to the front and bought it and popped it in and was floored.